But if they would have but Tom on it there would have been one problem...Tom sings all the time and this aint a musical...What is Tom Bombadil without his music?
(I wouldnt have minded of couple of Toms songs though!:cool guy:

Bombadil was left out because he's a strange character.. Same reason why they removed Glorfindel and replaced his role with Arwen. They could both probably defeat Sauron without even lifting a finger. Confusing to say the least. But I think the movie was excellent. Can't wait for the special edition so I can see all the other stuff they cut out.

I agree that a viewer who haden?t read the book would probably think that Tom could beat Sauron...but Glorfindel?NO WAY!It was said in the book that if All nine Nazguls would fight against Glorfindel and Aragorn Nazguls would win!So if nazguls would win them it wouldn?t be so hard to Sauron

And Gandalf said in book that even if they would give the ring to Bombadil he would be the last one to fall!

Basically there is no single being in Middle Earth that could defead Sauron!

(If they would have ad those 2 in book they would have made it so that even the dumbest viewer would realize that Sauron would defead them!)

for some reason they are putting the shelob at the beginning of return of the king. so don't expect to see it in there. i think they are ending it with frodo, sam, and gollum walking up the steps to cirith ungol.

they replaced glorfindel with arwen because they really wanted to focus on the love story and that really wasn't a big part of the books.

personally, i can't wait for return of the king. the battle of pellenor where all that great stuff happens and theoden rides to the rescue at the last second.

Well...in book Shelob was in beginning of Return Of The King so it normal they but it in ROTK(ROTK...lol)

But didint Boromir die in The Two Towers but im movie he died in Fellowship...
But if Shelob,Gondor,Attack to Mordor and those are all in the Return of the king its going to be one hell of a movie!:cool guy:

Did you read the Silmarillion? Glorfindel and Bombadil could easily beat Sauron. Glorfindel fought with Balrogs on his own. Besides, he's not really real at the moment in the story.. Bombadils been around for a millenia or such. He's uber.

I havent read Slmarillion but heres a quote of The Felloship of the Ring:
"`But in any case` said Glorfindel, `To sent the Ring to him would only be postpone the day of evil. He is far away. We could not now take it back to him, unquessed,unmarked by any spy. And even if we would, soon or late Lord of the Rings would leard of its hiding place and would bend all his power towards it. Could that power be defied by Bombadil alone?I think not. I think that in the end, if all else is conquered, Bombadil will fall, Last as he was First; and then Night will come.` "

And in other page on this book(dont remember where so i cant quote) is said that Nine would defead Glorfindel...And Sauron is master of The Nine. I think Glorfindel couldn?t defead Sauron.
And Gandalf said in book that It dosent matter do they take Glorfindel or Pippin with them because one person with his power cannot go aggains Sauron

And about the age thing...Sauron is Easily over 6000years old...and even before that he was servant of The Great Enemy.

So i dont think that Bombadil or Glorfindel could defead Sauron...if they could have why didint they?Well Bombadil didint want to leave from his home but what stopped Glorfindel?

Bombadil is strange. Though I may have put my foot in it with Glorfindel. He WAS uber powerful in the past. I think my memory could be screwed on this, but he faced 5..I think... 5 Balrogs and killed 4. The last one killed him. He's technically dead yet not. I really dont understand it. So I guess at this moment he couldn't.

The Silmarillion is full of characters more powerful the Sauron. Fingolfin being one of them. Although if you gave the ring to Galadriel, I think she would defeat Sauron. They're equal in strength from what I remember.

But Bombadil confuses me. They say alot of things about him, then say other things elsewhere. bah.. Gotta read the Silmarillion. You should pick it up too, NIN. Its pretty much the highlight of the LOTR universe. Some awesome stories.